New York, New York
– Over 450 people attended
the 2nd Annual Elly
Awards Luncheon hosted by The
Women’s Forum of New York benefiting
The Education Fund of The Women’s
Forum on Friday, May 18 at The Plaza
Hotel in New York City. The awards,
named for The Women’s Forum founder
Elinor Guggenheimer, honors
outstanding women leaders.
Arianna Huffington & Barbaralee
Diamonstein-Spielvogel were the
2012 honorees.
VIPS attending The Elly Awards
included
the Elly Award Recipients
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel,
Writer; Vice-Chair, NYSCA;
Chair, Historic Landmarks
Preservation Center and Arianna
Huffington, President and
Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington
Post Media Group.
Participating Celebrities included
Katie Couric,
six time Emmy® Award winning
journalist and Emily Rafferty,
President of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art. Gayle King, Emmy®
Award winning journalist, led a
conversation with the honorees
following the presentation of the
awards.
Other VIPS attending The Elly Awards
included:
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, Doris P.
Meister,
President - US Markets - BNY Mellon
Wealth Management, President of The
Women’s Forum of New York;
Carolyn Carter
former President & CEO- Europe,
Middle East & Africa, GREYgroup
& Co-Chair of The Elly Awards;
Jane Chesnutt, former
Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Day &
Co-Chair of The Elly Awards;
Lucy Jarvis, Legendary
television producer, Legendary
Chair, The Elly Awards;
Muriel Siebert, The first woman
to hold a seat on the New York Stock
Exchange;Legendary Chair, The
Elly Awards;; Silda Wall
Spitzer, Founder and Chair,
Children for Children, Former
First Lady of New York;
Loreen Arbus, President &
Executive Producer, Loreen Arbus
Productions;; LisaDennison,
Chairman-North and South America,
Sotheby's; Janice Reals Ellig,
Co-CEO, Chadick Ellig, Inc.; ;
Suri Kasirer, Founder and
President, Kasirer Consulting, LLC;
Catherine M. Keating, CEO,
Americas Institutional Asset
Management, JPMorgan; Liz
Krueger, Senator-New York
State;; Liz Neumark, CEO,
Great Performances; Barbara Tober,
President, Acronym Inc., Chairman of
the Board, Museum of Arts & Design;
Alair A. Townsend, Columnist,
Crain's New York Business; Tracey
T. Travis, SVP of Finance and
Chief Financial Officer, Ralph
Lauren Corporation; Peg Breen,
President, New York Landmarks
Conservancy;; Anita Durst,
The Durst Organization; Randy and
Jane Guggenheimer;
Abbe Raven,
President & CEO, A+E Network and
Paul Steiger,
Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica.
Margo Catsimatidis, Somers Farkas,
Jane Deflorio, Jill Granof, Cheryl
Wills, Juliana Terian, Jennifer
Gilbert, Ping Thompson, Susan
Elson, Kathy Greenberg, Tatiana
Pouchine, Jan and Marica Vilchek,
Karen Keogh, Doug Blonsky,
Gillian Tett,
Anita Durst,
Kim Schnaubert
and
Virginia Drabbe.
The 2nd Annual Elly
Awards Committee
was
Beverly Beaudoin,
President, The Education Fund of the
Women’s Forum;
Beth Canavan,
Executive Vice-President, Tiffany &
Co; Patricia Hennessy Chadwick,
Bloomingdales SVP, Regional Director
of Stores;
Irene Cohen,
Partner - Cohen and Miners;
Suzanne Dowling,
President & CEO Suzanne Dowling
Associates, LLC.;
Julie Greiner,
Chief Merchandise Planning
Officer - Macy's Inc.;
Doris P. Meister,
President - US Markets - BNY Mellon
Wealth Management & President of The
Women’s Forum of New York;
Barbara J. Friedman,
Consultant for Career
Development/Industry Relations - LIM
College;
Emita Hill,
Chancellor Emeritus - Indiana
University Kokomo;
Amy Dorn Kopelan,
President - Bedlam Productions Inc.;
Liz Newmark,
CEO - Great Performances;
Denise V. Seegal,
Executive Director - M. Magtague Co.
Ltd.;
Eugenia Ulasewicz,
President, Americas – Burberry;
Ilene Wachs
President, Horizon Casualty
Services, Inc.,Horizon Blue Cross
Blue Shield of New Jersey;
Linda A. Willett,
Senior Vice President, General
Counsel and Corporate
Secretary - Horizon Blue Cross Blue
Shield of New Jersey.
The 2012 Elly Awards:
Legendary Chairs:
Lucy Jarvis, Muriel Siebert
Honorary Chair:
Diana Taylor
Chairs:
Carolyn Carter, Jane Chesnutt
Committee:
Beverly Beaudoin, Beth Canavan,
Patricia Hennessy Chadwick, Irene
Cohen, Suzanne Dowling, Julie
Greiner, Doris P. Meister, Barbara
J. Friedman, Emita Hill, Amy Dorn
Kopelan,Liz Neumark, Denise V.
Seegal, Eugenia Ulasewicz, Ilene
Wachs, Linda A. Willett.
The Silver Anniversary Sponsor
of The 2nd Annual Elly
Awards was BNY Mellon.
Benefactor Sponsors for The Elly
Awards were:
Anonymous, The Loreen Arbus
Foundation, Dede Thompson
Bartlett,The Blackstone Charitable
Foundation, Chadick Ellig, The Estée
Lauder Companies Inc.,Fulbright &
Jaworski L.L.P., Macy’s and
Bloomingdale’s, Ralph Lauren
Corporation, Adam & Lenore Sender,
Linda A. Willett.
Patron Sponsors for The Elly Awards
were:
AECOM Technology Corporation; A+E
Networks; Dr.Georgette F. Bennett;
Bloomberg; BoomBox, Inc.; Burberry;
Amy Butte Liebowitz; Suzanne Clary;
Con Edison; Deloitte; Ernst & Young
LLP; Great Performances and CPS
Events at The Plaza; Greenberg
Traurig LLP; Lucy Jarvis;
Dorothy Lichtenstein,
J.P. Morgan; Ann Kaplan; Karen Katen
Foundation; Barbara Novick;
Scotiabank; Muriel Siebert; Diana
Taylor; Juliana Curran Terian;
Tiffany & Co.; Lulu C. Wang and
Marissa C. Wesely.
The Women’s Forum of New York:
The Women’s Forum of New York is New
York's premier organization of women
leaders comprised of the highest
women achievers across all
professional sectors from finance to
fine arts.
They advance women's leadership
three ways:
●
through core programing which
provides personal and professional
enrichment to their members
●
through the Education Fund which
provides education awards to high
potential women whose careers have
been derailed by adversity
●
through their Board Initiative which
expands and extends the contribution
of women leaders through
participation on corporate and civic
boards.
The Education Fund
is an educational and charitable arm
of The Women’s Forum of New York,
established under a separate
corporate governance as a 501(c)3
tax deductible organization.
Since 1987, the Fund has helped
mature women pursue educational
goals and enhance their capacities
to provide productive and supportive
service to their communities. The
Award recognizes extraordinary and
often heroic effort in overcoming
adversity and the most daunting of
odds in restructuring lives for
success.
Grants are awarded to women over the
age of 35 who, after suffering great
adversity and an interruption in
their education, are now pursuing
undergraduate college degrees.
Students in this population are
often single parents, economically
disadvantaged and struggling with
the rising costs of a college
education. Over the past 25
years, 130 women have been honored
by The Education Fund.